Manisha Koirala is glad streaming platforms are finally giving her the freedom of choice. Manisha Koirala. Photo by: Amal KS/Getty Q. What was the hardest part about playing an Irani cafe owner in Maska? The abuses she comes up with. I have never cursed so much in my life. It was new. But these were …
Sumukhi Suresh’s Pushpavalli is for Indian audiences what Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag perhaps was for the British. Both feature protagonists who revel in their flaws, both repeatedly go down the rabbit hole. In season two, Suresh and her team of writers are intent to not offer Pushpavalli any redemption. The mistakes of the past weigh heavily …
Coronavirus might have interrupted Tillotama Shome’s forward march, but she is again moving on. Tillotama Shome The month of March was meant to be Tillotama Shome’s moment in the sun. Angrezi Medium, a film in which she played a no-nonsense education consultant, had just released. She had made her web series debut in Alt Balaji’s …
It’s hard to restrain a jingoistic giggle when you learn that the exercise-oriented yoga practised all over the world first emerged as a reaction to cricket. According to Alistair Shearer in The Story of Yoga: From Ancient India to the Modern West, when the British brought cricket and gyms to the subcontinent to add muscle …
According to Tharoor, Writing is about You (your mind, your thoughts, your spirit, your essence, the whole You!), Shashi Tharoor: Photo by: Bandeep Singh Q.How do you normally isolate yourself in order to write? A.By writing when people have stopped importuning me. Most of my writing is done either after 11 pm, or on planes. …
ANUJA CHAUHAN Self-isolation is my natural state. I was an early believer in JOMO (the joy of missing out) and I love being alone with my thoughts. As a writer, I alternate between two states, writing and lying fallow. Fallow times are more social, when you go out into the larger world and mingle with …
